Hey, Michael, it’s Mahdi Gras at NRO! I also mentioned the old boy’s ending up as Kitchener’s souvenir knicknack in my weekend column, forthcoming tomorrow.

I realized this morning that I’m old enough to have gone to school when the Battle of Omdurman was taught approvingly. And, notwithstanding the president’s 45-minute Muslim funeral service for the late Mr. bin Laden, I would be surprised if American grade-school teachers ever wind up according the same treatment to last Sunday’s events.

PS Steven, re that River War passage, I quoted it here.